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Cuomo Says He Won’t ‘Personally’ Fight Trump

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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) “has positioned himself as the only candidate in the New York City mayor’s race who can forcefully go toe-to-toe with President Trump. But in a closed-door meeting on Wednesday with some of the city’s biggest business leaders, Mr. Cuomo suggested he might adopt a more conciliatory strategy,” the New York Times reports.

“As he made a case for his candidacy, Mr. Cuomo said he was not ‘personally’ looking for a fight with the president and compared their yearslong relationship to a ‘dysfunctional marriage.'”

Said Cuomo: “I think he wants to be accepted by New York City, and I think there’s an opportunity there.”


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Science Research at Harvard May Be Set Back Years

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Associated Press: “The loss of an estimated $2.6 billion in federal funding at Harvard has meant that some of the world’s most prominent researchers are laying off young researchers. They are shelving years or even decades of research, into everything from opioid addiction to cancer.”

“And despite Harvard’s lawsuits against the administration, and settlement talks between the warring parties, researchers are confronting the fact that some of their work may never resume.”

Trump to Require Universities to Submit Data on Race

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“President Trump is expected to sign a memorandum on Thursday requiring colleges to submit admissions data to the federal government to verify compliance with a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious policies,” the New York Times reports.

Bloomberg: “The government will also expand the scope of required admissions data reporting and increase data accuracy checks. The Education Department is directed to take remedial action over incomplete or inaccurate data.”

The Authoritarian Moment We’ve All Feared

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Harry Litman: “It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous this moment is. Using the machinery of criminal justice to pursue manufactured charges against political predecessors is the stuff of strongmen and collapsing democracies…”

“It corrodes trust in democratic transitions, chills dissent, and redefines political opposition as criminal subversion.”

Exchange of the Day

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Conservative podcaster Candace Owens recounted a conversation she had with President Trump about French president Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte:

TRUMP: She’s old and this is really, really impacting her. I saw her up close and she looks like a woman to me, I had dinner with her at the top of the Eiffel tower.

OWENS: Respectfully Mr. President, it’s not my fault that he married somebody with a penis.

Indiana Democrats Will Fight Back

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Indiana state Rep. Matt Pierce (D) told CNN that Democrats will “use every procedural maneuver available” to “pushback” on Republican efforts to redistrict his state.

Said Pierce: “We are in a fight for democracy, a fight for our democratic lives. And I think that if the Republicans can have their will in these deep red states, the Democratic states have to step up. We have to have a national fight about this, and we have to preserve democracy.”

He added: “We have to have pushback. The Republicans have to learn that they can’t get away with this, because if they do, it’s all downhill from here. And we will not have a democracy.”

Quote of the Day

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“Anybody who has been around me for the last few years saw this coming… Donald Trump has sucked the life and soul and the direction of the Republican Party out. And also, you know, all the solutions that I seem to want to use in public policy seem to be opposed by Republicans and there’s a — there’s a platform on the Democratic side. And so, for me, this switch has been inevitable and it’s an opportunity.”

— Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, in an interview on CNN, explaining his switch to the Democratic party.

How the Left Fell in Love with Conor Lamb

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Politico: “When he ran for Senate in 2022, Conor Lamb was thrashed by over 30 points in the Democratic Senate primary. He lost every county in the state as the left rallied behind John Fetterman and against the young lawmaker who was dismissed as a centrist stooge and veritable Joe Manchin clone.”

“Progressives want you to know they’re sorry about that.”

“In light of Fetterman’s seeming estrangement from the Democratic Party and his evolution into ‘Trump’s favorite Democrat,’ the left has reconciled with Lamb, wondering if maybe they were a little too tough on the once up-and-coming lawmaker who had shot to national attention by winning a deep red district in a 2018 special election.”

About Political Wire

goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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